East Coast is next in path of winter storm

DETROIT (AP) -- The remnants of a huge winter storm plowed toward the East Coast on Sunday after dumping as much as 2 feet of snow in the upper Midwest, grounding hundreds of airline flights and closing major highways on the Plains.
Eight traffic deaths were attributed to the storm, seven in Wisconsin and one in Kansas.
Utility crews labored Sunday to restore power after the storm blacked out hundreds of thousands of homes and business in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and Ohio. Street and highway crews -- nearly 300 snow removal trucks and plows in Chicago -- worked to clear pavement of snow and ice.
Moist air the storm system pulled from the Gulf of Mexico fueled violent thunderstorms in the South, sweeping cars off roads, crumpling businesses and sending mobile homes flying. Tornadoes were reported in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
By midday Sunday, snow was dwindling but still falling from the eastern Dakotas across the Great Lakes to the Washington area.
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